Christmas & Party

We had the very best Christmas and New Year full of family and fun. Here's some of what we've been up to!

We treated ourselves to Baskin Robbins one afternoon after I picked Landon up from school. Landon had a birthday party to go to for his friend in his class Mia. We also made and decorated Christmas cookies with Grandma Debbie.

For Christmas eve we went to an amazing special service at our church complete with snow for he kids and hot cocoa for us big kids! We then came home and surprised Landon with one present to open which had a new Christmas movie, new PJ's and slippers to wear, and a box of candy to go with our Christmas eve  family movie night. 

Here's Christmas morning! I made Dale and I our traditional sticky buns and Landon his Santa pancake for breakfast, we opened presents then relaxed. We had my mom over for a big Christmas lunch the went to Taffy and Ray's for Christmas dinner and more presents. I probably should have taken some more pictures but Im not too upset I was living in the moment instead :)

At the mall, we got a free ride on one of those motorized animals they have. We went shopping at Party City for goody bags and odd ends for Landon's party. He grabbed these glasses when I wasn't looking and had them on when I turned around, it was so funny! We also got practiced shooting silly string webs his Aunt Christy and Uncle Will gave him.

This was our little New Year's Ever celebration. The sparklers were a HUGE hit! Landon couldn't get enough of them or the awesome firecrackers he got from Muzzy for Christmas.

 

We woke up to a winter wonderland New Year's Day! our house and backyard were covered so Dale had the awesome idea to go to an open field will a hill nearby and bring our sled! Dale has given me grief about bringing home this polar bear sled from Costco a few years ago and never using it so it felt great to have it handy when we finally needed it! We all went sledding down the hill, made snow angels, threw snowballs, and made a snowman. Its so incredibly rare we see snow and especially snow that sticks that we made sure to take full advantage of it. Landon was over the moon with the snow. I mean he couldn't been any happier, he was alll smiles giggles, and squeals. He had no fear with the sled and even attempted to go down the hill head first on his tummy which I'm thrilled I captured on camera! Luckily he wasn't hurt, he was still all smiles as a matter of fact. Make sure to check out the last two pictures here, its him with his face in the snow and the after picture. 

Landon's birthday finally came. We celebrated it with a special breakfast (choclate chip Mickey waffles). Grandma Debbie treated us to a super fun trip to Chuck E. Cheese and we celebrated with Daddy at a fancy dinner complete with a dessert and birthday serenade.

The big birthday party was the day right after where we partied at Pump It Up. Landon was beyond excited for this and it didn't disappoint. There was tons of his friends that showed up to play. He loved all of the attention he got which is what birthday parties are all about :)

On Dale's day off we went up to the top Mt. Lemmon to play one more time in the snow. Landon has the time of his life in this stuff and Im pretty sure he was meant for it. We found an excellent hill to sled down that was long and pretty fast. We couldn't believe our barely 4 year old wanted to go down on his own immediately and was all smiles zooming down super fast. He even spun around in circles going down and hits some bumps but loved every second of it. We also went for a little exploring and found some pretty cool stuff, had a snowball fight, and had a picnic on his sled.
We cannot wait for more snow to come again someday! We might even have to go driving north to find some more soon. But for now settling into our usual routines without the craziness of the holidays has us very happy!